The black knife assasins have beautiful animations when moving around, but that won't matter if ranni didn't pay enough to ensure you make the swag jump to safety first try.
On my NG+5 or 6 run, I destroyed Maliketh with Tiche's Spirit Ashes AND the Godslayer Greatsword! It was funny as HELL! I was like:' I'm going to go for it!' It worked! The Gloam-Eyed Queen would have been pleased!
Imagine how much more overpowered this weapon would be if its Ash of War did magic or fire damage instead of holy. Anyway, this was a fun run. Good job!
honestly, I'm starting to think it's kind of why almost nothing is weak to holly and the endgame tend to be strong to it. Holy spells are really strong (except the legendary one), unique holy weapons are quite good (except the legendary one), holy AoW are generally very strong too.
Lmao, the callouts about things in the minimum bosses run were really funny to me because both the "isn't there another way into the capital without tree sentinel" and "can't you fight Rykard without noble via the quest line" occurred to me, but I thought about them long enough to realize they don't work before (not) commenting.
3:29 "look these runs aren't curing anyone's diabetes" No, but it's been a *heck of a day* for me, and I appreciate having this video to take my mind off it. Thanks
Hey, I hope stuff goes better and this is the best part of making these. Life is hard, games are hard, and it's nice when they can feel a little better
I am literally using the Black Knife Assassin set and Tiche right now. Didn't realize they were this good, just thought they were cool. I mean, I knew they were good, but dear lord. Definitely making my first Elden Ring run easier. About to fight the Fire Giant. Wish me luck!
Fun fact, the health reducing effects of the black blade, tiche, and the spell you get from maliketh's remembrance all stack. Do with this information what you will.
Love your videos! I'm sure someone has mentioned this, but just in case they havent, in the rot cave with the clean rot knight bosses; you can turn around and back-step through the rot water (no quickstep needed).
He's alluding to the fact he could (possibly) get investigated for having Biden and assassin in the same sentence. Though its really just a joke since its unlikely they'd care, given the context
I know the set up for it would be a little more annoying and possibly time consuming but, have you ever thought of doing a Blaidd run? Start Vagabond, get the greatsword, infuse it with cold, wolf mask, then rush Ranni's Quest to get the rest of the gear. IMO, it's quite fun to run around as ER's best boy, and it'd be interesting to see Blaidd make his way into ER's secret classes
When I made an early run for the Black Knife, I detoured to the Cliffbottom Catacombs to hire a Kaiden Sellsword to help bully the Assassin who drops the knife; the fight still took a couple tries, but the Assassin isn't nearly as good at dodging against two people, and the Sellsword can ragdoll her, which allows for some pretty easy free hits. IMO, an assassin hiring a sellsword to help them in a fight seems pretty reasonable.
This video made me realize just how many bosses are resistant to holy that really have no right to be. For example, FortniteSex is the only dragon with holy resist! Yknow, the *lichdragon?* I know he was Godwyn's bestie and all, but still! Why do Radahn and Malenia have holy resist? Sure they're Radagon's kids, but that bloodline is all they've got, and Rykard, who is Radahn's brother, doesn't have that privilege. I guess Rykard is technically a giant snake now and not exactly a standard demigod anymore, but why do even demigods not affiliated with the Erdtree or Golden Order have holy resist? This one I know is a bit of a stretch, but Godfrey is fully mortal, merely a warrior who was once the husband of a goddess. Even if you make the argument he was once Marika's consort, Rennala was Radagon's consort and even has a great rune of her own, something you can't say about Godfrey, and the developers had the sense to not give her holy resist. Why does he have holy resist?
Also in Skyrim, Anniversary Edition, there is this mod that lets you have the Black Knife Assassin armor, cool as F%#@! AND, you can get some of the Spirit Ashes too!
Maybe try a treespear run? That’s one of the few somber weapons that can take elemental buffs, even though it already has baked in holy. Just if you’re looking to practice with spears, you don’t seem to have as much fun with them but they can be pretty neat
When fighting that first BKA if you wanna be a sneaky assassin, you can go down hte elevator into hte hero's grave, then come back up, back-stab, disengage, move to the elevator, rinse, repeat, easy kill with sneak attack
Did you know you can use the back buttons (LB/RB) in your equipment screen to swap between gear slots instead of having to back out and select the next slot?
dex/faith as sapphic behavior is so true why are you so effortlessly funny xD i love these videos dude, i cant wait to see you play the DLC when it comes out lol.
On those slow moving swamp portions where you're forced to slow walk, you can turn your character's back on where you want to go and then tap B/Circle to perform a quick hop backwards. It's significantly faster than walking. Works in lava too.
@dougdustin2228 yes. It is. Another clue is danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, also pronounced w a hard k sound and long i. So like the Greek goddess of fortune Tyche. When you think of who From soft would be pulling inspiration from Greek goddesses and heretical astronomers really makes sense.
25:30 I think the chatter said that because in NG+, you can sprint through swamps that would usually force you to walk. Still, they should have fact checked themselves first before mindlessly backseating.
As a note, if you don’t wanna invest in DEX for faith, just slam the Azur staff in the offhand and the Radagon Icon on. It basically gives you max cast speed.
Could you use the teleporter chest in the Tower of Return in the Weeping Peninsula to get to Leyndell? If you use the tongue to bait invaders while you're standing by the elevator, then invaders can spawn at the bottom and use the lever to send the elevator up.
Here's the best way to cross trough tough terrain, because i know you like getting these. Get Prelates Hammer and dont have the stats to use it. Use its ash of war, if you dont meet the stats, it wont use fp and it wont use stamina if your not in combat, but it will make you run across tough terrain, like lava and rot swamps
I'm on NG+4 and I keep going back to black knife assassin build. I enjoyed the dual Wing of asteel build, and sword ordovice sword stance break but I noticed I keep switching back to the Black knife build when I reach malenia, blade of miquella. Always revert back to the assassin build.
Video suggestion: Similar to the deciding the best element video, download the convergence mod and do a run on every starting class that requires either int faith or arcane per video, and compare times/deaths as usual.
Wouldn’t reducing max healthy only matter if a boss heals? I never understood why this is considered a relevant aspect of the dagger or destined death mechanic in general. Is it good just because you get to have one big damage hit if you land it? What am I missing?
This video is nearly perfect. The only thing that bothers me is that you talk about goths the whole video as a running gag but during the title cards you mainly played emo music instead of goth rock. There is a very big difference between the two.
The black knife assasins have beautiful animations when moving around, but that won't matter if ranni didn't pay enough to ensure you make the swag jump to safety first try.
Black Knife does the JACK KNIFE. Most of you wouldn't even ATTEMPT that
You should do either You as Omenkiller and get Tricia's Ashes, or you go Perfumer Tricia, and get Rollo's ashes.
Oh yes that would be good, I would love to see perfumer run.
Omen would be cool I played something like it and enjoyed it
It would be pretty fun either way... welll, not really. Just the omenkiller way. I do not want to make perfume
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033Yeah I actually highly recommend the duel Occult Omenkiller Cleaver build. Super powerful.
A Rollo run would be great.
a perfumer dlc or ng+ run could be dope
Killing Maliketh with the Blade of Death has got to be extra disrespectful.
Storm into Farum Azula, kick the front door, and scream to Maliket:
"I'm here to return your rune, hope you're ready to take it!"
On my NG+5 or 6 run, I destroyed Maliketh with Tiche's Spirit Ashes AND the Godslayer Greatsword! It was funny as HELL! I was like:' I'm going to go for it!' It worked! The Gloam-Eyed Queen would have been pleased!
Imagine how much more overpowered this weapon would be if its Ash of War did magic or fire damage instead of holy.
Anyway, this was a fun run. Good job!
honestly, I'm starting to think it's kind of why almost nothing is weak to holly and the endgame tend to be strong to it. Holy spells are really strong (except the legendary one), unique holy weapons are quite good (except the legendary one), holy AoW are generally very strong too.
I honestly think that's why "flame of death" and "rune of death" are distinguished
still, me and tiche can easily melt elden beast's health with the ash of war
It does % health tho right?
@@TreeeQueen Yes, and also holy damage on top of that.
Lmao, the callouts about things in the minimum bosses run were really funny to me because both the "isn't there another way into the capital without tree sentinel" and "can't you fight Rykard without noble via the quest line" occurred to me, but I thought about them long enough to realize they don't work before (not) commenting.
3:29 "look these runs aren't curing anyone's diabetes"
No, but it's been a *heck of a day* for me, and I appreciate having this video to take my mind off it.
Thanks
Right
Hey, I hope stuff goes better and this is the best part of making these. Life is hard, games are hard, and it's nice when they can feel a little better
As a sapphic who's favorite builds are dex faith....i didn't need to be called out like that tulock
You've been arrested by the Sapphic police. But we abolished them so just be happy with a woman and know you're supported
As a sapphic who's split between str/fth and dex/fth, I feel 50% called out
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience" hahaha I love that phrase
someone got it!
i definitely remember that one black knife assassin killing godwhyn with the serpent hunter
I must be a masochist because i looked at the stats on the Serpent Hunter and went "but my scythe is way better" and i had a blast doing the fight.
That controller throw and catch when you died to the Night’s Cavalry was honestly impressive
Love this build and the livestream run was even cooler! Tulok, you are amazingly entertaining as both a streamer and creator.
Thanks! I do my best!
6:05 did NOT expect to hear this song in 202x...
I hear it every day 😌
I literally searched this video in your channel an hour ago. Guess the universe decided to help me on this one! Great video and build!
Great instincts
I am literally using the Black Knife Assassin set and Tiche right now. Didn't realize they were this good, just thought they were cool. I mean, I knew they were good, but dear lord. Definitely making my first Elden Ring run easier.
About to fight the Fire Giant. Wish me luck!
hows the fire giant?
@@rosewood_uwu8865 I'm procrastinating because I don't want Melina to die...😢
Second try win. I was chronically smooth-brain in the first one, didn't even hit the guy.
Fun fact, the health reducing effects of the black blade, tiche, and the spell you get from maliketh's remembrance all stack. Do with this information what you will.
@@evanholt1752 I have been informed as much and fully intend to abuse it.
Love your videos! I'm sure someone has mentioned this, but just in case they havent, in the rot cave with the clean rot knight bosses; you can turn around and back-step through the rot water (no quickstep needed).
One of your best ever Forbidden Lands gags this week, A+
I'm European so I don't really get it
He's alluding to the fact he could (possibly) get investigated for having Biden and assassin in the same sentence. Though its really just a joke since its unlikely they'd care, given the context
Started off swerving the bit, then did it. I rather liked it thank you!
Fun fact, you can sprint in swamps in NG+
I was wondering why I could do that and get around much faster recently
This explains a lot
magma too, like in that one hero grave
Wait you can WHAT
Dex faith being sapphic behavior is cannon I do pretty much exclusively those builds and I am extremely sapphic
I know the set up for it would be a little more annoying and possibly time consuming but, have you ever thought of doing a Blaidd run?
Start Vagabond, get the greatsword, infuse it with cold, wolf mask, then rush Ranni's Quest to get the rest of the gear.
IMO, it's quite fun to run around as ER's best boy, and it'd be interesting to see Blaidd make his way into ER's secret classes
DTS puns are my favourite part of every Tulok video
I feel like some people don't know about the swamp power of ng+. Iirc in New game you get slowed by deep water, mud, lava etc. In ng+ you don't.
"Were the black knife assassins working with ranni?" Bro, she hired them
Misery business AND black parade? Now that's some good music taste.
17:01 ranni organized the night of black knives so that she could take advantage of the body killing half of the rune of death to flee her flesh
Your google on your work computer bit is so in my brain at this point, than when you don’t when you’re set up, my brain short circuits
I’m pretty sure you can reach Rykard without fighting the NPCs by exploring Volcano Manor and finding a teleportation gate
When I made an early run for the Black Knife, I detoured to the Cliffbottom Catacombs to hire a Kaiden Sellsword to help bully the Assassin who drops the knife; the fight still took a couple tries, but the Assassin isn't nearly as good at dodging against two people, and the Sellsword can ragdoll her, which allows for some pretty easy free hits.
IMO, an assassin hiring a sellsword to help them in a fight seems pretty reasonable.
This video made me realize just how many bosses are resistant to holy that really have no right to be.
For example, FortniteSex is the only dragon with holy resist! Yknow, the *lichdragon?* I know he was Godwyn's bestie and all, but still!
Why do Radahn and Malenia have holy resist? Sure they're Radagon's kids, but that bloodline is all they've got, and Rykard, who is Radahn's brother, doesn't have that privilege. I guess Rykard is technically a giant snake now and not exactly a standard demigod anymore, but why do even demigods not affiliated with the Erdtree or Golden Order have holy resist?
This one I know is a bit of a stretch, but Godfrey is fully mortal, merely a warrior who was once the husband of a goddess. Even if you make the argument he was once Marika's consort, Rennala was Radagon's consort and even has a great rune of her own, something you can't say about Godfrey, and the developers had the sense to not give her holy resist. Why does he have holy resist?
Also in Skyrim, Anniversary Edition, there is this mod that lets you have the Black Knife Assassin armor, cool as F%#@! AND, you can get some of the Spirit Ashes too!
Maybe try a treespear run? That’s one of the few somber weapons that can take elemental buffs, even though it already has baked in holy. Just if you’re looking to practice with spears, you don’t seem to have as much fun with them but they can be pretty neat
fitting that in the race to kill a god we went all the way to now join the OG god killer team
Turns out the best strategy is just ganging up on people and taking all their health away
I’ve never watched a sponsorship segment fully in my life until today
25:22 turn around and backstep
I'm a little disappointed that I didn't hear, 'Look up Bad Dragon from your work computer. 😉' lol.
You can only sprint through things like Rot and lava in NG+, I think that commenter forgot about that lol.
The last time i heard black parade was like 2 years ago still a banger
Came for the elden ring content, stayed for the ITYSL clips. And like ONE little nugget of meat.
Banished knight would also sit well as secret starting classes, ima start commenting this request on every secret class video
Every time you mention the fort knight I giggle like a child
When fighting that first BKA if you wanna be a sneaky assassin, you can go down hte elevator into hte hero's grave, then come back up, back-stab, disengage, move to the elevator, rinse, repeat, easy kill with sneak attack
Black knife?
ahhh you mean baby dancers.
Been watching for a while, look forward to your videos each thursday/friday!
Draconic tree sentinel starting class would be really funny
Did you know you can use the back buttons (LB/RB) in your equipment screen to swap between gear slots instead of having to back out and select the next slot?
you should do an alexander jar build. that’s the build we’ve all been waiting for
it’s always a great day when mr tulok and mango uploads
Can y’all please do a “One Color Only” run where you use items that are only mostly or fully one color
that’s actually how I want to play ER when I finally get the game
22:34 banger ass song
What's it called please?
Yeah, I did a powerstanced black knife/blade of calling build and it was the most fun playthroughs I've done so far.
17:58 that was some professional level word play
I love that you watch pitch meetings and that go you a sub sir
this has to be the most OP challenge youve done
dex/faith as sapphic behavior is so true why are you so effortlessly funny xD i love these videos dude, i cant wait to see you play the DLC when it comes out lol.
Leyndell Knight or Omenkiller next would be dank.
Not even watched it already know it’s great
It just gets better when you watch!
There’s a portal in volcano manor accessible via the abductor in raya lucaria that’ll take you to rykard. No manor progress needed
Omg I was there for the hold circle advice 🤣🤣🤣
On those slow moving swamp portions where you're forced to slow walk, you can turn your character's back on where you want to go and then tap B/Circle to perform a quick hop backwards. It's significantly faster than walking.
Works in lava too.
love your work, one note, its Tiche doesnt rhyme with niche it rhymes with Nike. because its comes from greek mythology, alecto does too.
So you're saying it's pronounced tykee?
@dougdustin2228 yes. It is. Another clue is danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, also pronounced w a hard k sound and long i. So like the Greek goddess of fortune Tyche. When you think of who From soft would be pulling inspiration from Greek goddesses and heretical astronomers really makes sense.
@@miriamlinn8934 you know what that makes sense. I believe it. I'm surprised all those lore videos and everything never mentioned anything about ut
Love this idea, can't wait to be able to pay attention.
Paying attention is overrated. Stream in one monitor, video on the other
The only man in the black knife assassins could be a Elden ring harem
The way I recognised the Red and Black instrumental from Bayonetta. I had a hol' up moment. Love your vids dude
25:24 You can sprint here if you walk near the edge, it's shallow there for some reason.
25:30
I think the chatter said that because in NG+, you can sprint through swamps that would usually force you to walk. Still, they should have fact checked themselves first before mindlessly backseating.
Imagine a discount in -fort- Code Haight
So cool of Factor to let that be the offer code
To fight Rikard you don’t have to fight the NPC’s. You can just run to his boss Arena
I didn't need to be personally attacked by every single song in this video, but still...
Boost
Always a good day when you post!
Just noticed this but I’m glad you got the set up out of the bedroom :D
Black Knife Tiche nearly solo'd Elden Beast on my first playthrough before I used memory of grace to get out.
Counterpoint, Spells look cool and I like casting them.
Also, hearing Double Trouble was an amazing bit of nostalgia for me.
*grab her popcorn*
I can't even watch T&M without a big pour of wine. And popcorn
i like your spot for the cheese for the Knight
As a note, if you don’t wanna invest in DEX for faith, just slam the Azur staff in the offhand and the Radagon Icon on. It basically gives you max cast speed.
I’m already subscribed but that watch time place seems like a fun time :)
The videos actually get better when you're subbed
Could you use the teleporter chest in the Tower of Return in the Weeping Peninsula to get to Leyndell? If you use the tongue to bait invaders while you're standing by the elevator, then invaders can spawn at the bottom and use the lever to send the elevator up.
Invaders can only use elevator that the host have already activated before.
Leans very much towards the glitch/exploit end of the scale, whereas he said he was doing minimum bosses in a glitchless, dev-intended kind of way.
There is a popular legend that in childhood Miyazaki’s father beat him with prolonged attacks for bad deeds.
Another faith-dex secret starting class? I think from has favourites
Faith Strength is generally better, but Faith/dex has some heat
I love how u call them starting classes even tho u cant pick up some items till near the end of the game
Sorry I forgot dts my bad
We all do, it's OK haha
For Rykard, you could have got to him through the warp gate in volcano manor
Here's the best way to cross trough tough terrain, because i know you like getting these.
Get Prelates Hammer and dont have the stats to use it.
Use its ash of war, if you dont meet the stats, it wont use fp and it wont use stamina if your not in combat, but it will make you run across tough terrain, like lava and rot swamps
The ITYSL references always get me lol
I'm on NG+4 and I keep going back to black knife assassin build. I enjoyed the dual Wing of asteel build, and sword ordovice sword stance break but I noticed I keep switching back to the Black knife build when I reach malenia, blade of miquella. Always revert back to the assassin build.
Video suggestion:
Similar to the deciding the best element video, download the convergence mod and do a run on every starting class that requires either int faith or arcane per video, and compare times/deaths as usual.
I was today years old when I learned GITMO is still open. Shit in one hand, promise in another.
Black Knife Assassin was my first run on NG+. Still love the outfits style
Can't wait for Big Boggart run
Bro took part in the felling of godwyn the golden
RIP to Godwyn but I'm different
Wouldn’t reducing max healthy only matter if a boss heals? I never understood why this is considered a relevant aspect of the dagger or destined death mechanic in general. Is it good just because you get to have one big damage hit if you land it? What am I missing?
Hey man I've died at the same time as that bridge Boi but not gotten any of the runes so I mean you still won in my book lol
Perfumer could be a fun Secret Class.
Or maybe Omenkiller?
Why not both? At the same time.
@@DM-zh2kt Oh yeah that's actually a proper duo isn't it!
so weirdly enough fire giant seal doesn’t buff catch flame (and two other spells i think.) just thought it should be noted. good video!
I really enjoy the cheesy jokes. Sure I enjoy Elden Ring but your videos are also a great mood booster!
I feel called out from the last video where I pointed out that Yura only appears after you hit Nerijus 😅
This video is nearly perfect. The only thing that bothers me is that you talk about goths the whole video as a running gag but during the title cards you mainly played emo music instead of goth rock. There is a very big difference between the two.
yes gurl you get that em effin sponsor
Also you can go into the catacomb to stop agro and when the black knife assassin is walking away you can back stab them again
I've spent so much more time watching Elden Ring videos than I have playing Elden Ring